(THE CONVERSATION) As a linguistics professor, I’m often asked why English is decaying before our eyes, whether it’s “like” being used promiscuously, t’s being dropped deleteriously or “literally” ...

Several recent books with unreliable narrators give children the rare pleasure of feeling smarter than the story.

The thousands of books occupying several cozy, sunlit rooms in Paige Lewis’ home were once organized alphabetically. Then a ...

Uh Oh, Spring Has Sprung! “Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, / The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; / And ‘tis my ...

Across every section of the Pleiad, our staff works to recognize the various forms of expression that shape how we understand the world around us. Poetry, in particular, offers a space where language ...

LONDON (AP) — Can a few lines of verse, make commuting less worse? That, in essence, is the question asked four decades ago by Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London who wondered whether ...

“A poet’s hope,” wrote Auden, is “to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, but prized elsewhere.” No poet fulfilled that hope like Seamus Heaney. Born near Castledawson in 1939, he was loved the ...

The fictional accoutrements of Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth's doc can be bothersome, but interviews and performance footage centering the woman herself are riveting. “What we’re after is memories, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Marianne Faithfull, the renowned British singer-songwriter-actress who first catapulted to fame with her 1964 song As Tears Go By, was no stranger to public scrutiny during her extensive ...